tales to strengthen the African American spirit and encourage the heart
Williams, Donna Marie
1997
A collection of short, inspirational stories compiled specifically for African-Americans, telling of love, healing, wisdom, excellence, atonement, and hope.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1897. Presents a collection of Navajo legends as a source of cultural, ritual, and ceremonial information.
Profiles the myths of the ancient Aztecs and Maya and discusses how those myths became the basis of their religion, where the myths originated, what each myth means, and other related topics.
A memoir, set in the 1980s, in which Tom Harmer shares the story of how a brush with death led him to seek out his old friend Okanogan Indian elder Clayton Tommy Jr., who schooled him in Native American traditions and spirituality, and brought him to a closer awareness of the earth.
Jenna Rosen, haunted by the drowning death of her son two years earlier, returns to Wrangell, Alaska where he died and is drawn into a battle with Tlingit spirits for the soul of her child.